Hi all,
I have just mutually ended a compatible and good 6 month relationship due to practical reasons we couldn't find a solution for without doing long-term long-distance. That would have been very difficult for several reasons and not conducive to the family I want at my life stage.
I'm not utterly bereft and at times feel positive about big changes coming up in my life (the reason for the split) but I am feeling disappointed, lonely, missing him, and very aware of my age and wanting to meet someone and have a family (mid 30s). Things ended nicely but we have not been in touch.
I have just been told to self isolate. I was coping by seeing friends and having long walks, going on day trips nearby, planning trips to exhibitions, beauty treatments etc. Basically distractions.
I am now stuck indoors, on my own and am starting to do stupid things like daydream about if it had worked and wondering if we have made a mistake, think of pretexts to contact him etc (I won't do so).
Any suggestions for not doing these things please?
I am in regular touch with friends via WhatsApp but am quite zoomed out from work. My concentration for reading, making things etc is shot from having covid. I'm not much of a TV or film watcher except Love Island (guilty pleasure!). I am also on a strict diet and don't feel like eating much anyway so can't treat myself with really nice food and am already doing a lot of workouts!
I could start looking for online dates again but am moving soon so there would be a fairly long wait before I could actually meet them and from experience, I don't really feel like having a load of chats on the go for weeks, I prefer just to meet quickly.